It was back to back defeats for Luke Williams' Bristol City U23 side on Monday night as visiting Leeds United swept past the Ashton Gate outfit.

With head coach Lee Johnson watching on from the stands it was a chance to impress for City's young talents.

But after being beaten 2-3 by Colchester on Friday, however, the Development side could do no better against their illustrious and more rugged visitors from Yorkshire.

Carlos Corberan's team were good value for their half-time lead as they created several good chances in the opening period.

Bristol City U23s v Leeds United U23s (Image: Bristol Post 2018)

The Robins' chief tormentor was attacker Jack Clarke who rounded defender Jayden Ali on several occasions to either fire wide himself, have Tom Richards diving in to block or set up striker Sam Dalby to nudge wide from mere yards out.

Jordan Stevens made a nuisance of himself while full-back Tyler Denton threatened from the back too.

The hosts had chances too however, as recent Northern Ireland U21 call-up Rory Holden ran through and forced Kamil Miazek into two saves, the second with a cross-shot just missing the far post.

Leeds took the lead as Stevens burst down the right and fizzed a cross over for hapless defender Ali to spoon back over keeper Jojo Wollacott. Tin Plavotic desperately tried to clear the ball from under his own cross bar but the assistant referee ruled that it had crossed the line.

After the break Clarke threatened again for the Whites, while 16-year-old substitute Sam Pearson linked well with Holden but nothing came of it.

And slowly the visitors tightened their grip on the game as Wollacott pulled off a wondrous save to deny Clarke before Jamie Shackleton slid through Dalby one-on-one for the highly rated prospect to elegantly chip over the Robins goalkeeper rushing from his line.

Holden and Bakinson both combined nicely down City's right and there was a decent penalty shout for 16-year-old Pearson but Leeds wrapped things up when a slick counter-punch move saw super-sub Madger Gomes slide into the right channel with his cut-back neatly potted home by the marauding Denton.

The icing on the cake was a late second for Denton as he cooly finished from a second Gomes' low cross in the final minute.